Jazz news: Iconic Singer-Songwriter Michael Franks Returns With Sublime New Album Of Penetrating Poetry And Worldly Grooves, Celebrating His Love of Animals, Travel, Literature, Humanity And Life.

It's hard to believe it is almost 30 years since Michael Franks made us prick up our ears as we first heard the quaintly titled Popsicle Toes from the Art Of Tea album. This tongue-in-cheek ditty ...

Michael Franks, the ever-artful singer-songwriter and harvester of the most delectable musical passion fruit known to distingué lovers, recently released his 18th offering, Time Together, his first ...

“The song was an afterthought on my first album with Warner Bros., but it has been kind to me,” he points out, noting that he paid off his mortgage thanks to Diana Krall’s cover version on ...

Franks is best known for his 1976 smooth jazz hit "Popsicle Toes." This year, Franks released a new album, Time Together, with more songs suited for cooling down on summer days.

It’s been six years since his last record, “The Music in My Head,” but Franks is hard at work on a new album. “I’ve slowed down to intervals of five or six years (between albums) now ...